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Side 84
... things , when a world of facts is displayed to our view , it is therefore not extraordinary that they should be in general uninteresting . As a proof , the best translation of Plato would not at present have a sale . Many of Cicero's ...
... things , when a world of facts is displayed to our view , it is therefore not extraordinary that they should be in general uninteresting . As a proof , the best translation of Plato would not at present have a sale . Many of Cicero's ...
Side 90
... thing which should correspond with the mu- sical cadence ; hence the invention of all the different antient metres ; and hence we may lay it down as a maxim that metre of some kind is essential to poetry ... The origin of poetry will ...
... thing which should correspond with the mu- sical cadence ; hence the invention of all the different antient metres ; and hence we may lay it down as a maxim that metre of some kind is essential to poetry ... The origin of poetry will ...
Side 92
... thing contained in a poem was sup- posed to be a new invention , for that could not be true , and particularly of descriptive poems ; but the composition as a whole might be re- garded more strictly as an effort of the inven- tion than ...
... thing contained in a poem was sup- posed to be a new invention , for that could not be true , and particularly of descriptive poems ; but the composition as a whole might be re- garded more strictly as an effort of the inven- tion than ...
Side 94
... or half verses , and seems to give the reader time to breathe , as " Awake my St. John - leave all meaner things " To low ambition - and the pride of kings ; " Let us since life can little more supply , 94 DESCRIPTION AND.
... or half verses , and seems to give the reader time to breathe , as " Awake my St. John - leave all meaner things " To low ambition - and the pride of kings ; " Let us since life can little more supply , 94 DESCRIPTION AND.
Side 100
... things , nay sometimes are brilliant ; but they never accomplish what is truly great . It is impossible to be poetical without the subject admits of it ; unless that is in itself interesting , all the pomp and ornaments of poetry and ...
... things , nay sometimes are brilliant ; but they never accomplish what is truly great . It is impossible to be poetical without the subject admits of it ; unless that is in itself interesting , all the pomp and ornaments of poetry and ...
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